Everyone is forced to work together to get the ship back into the Flow, and that’s when the captain turns the tables on the mutineers. This is a problem because it leaves them stranded in empty space with no hope of rescue. Just before the mutineers put a bullet in her brain, the ship is unexpectedly thrown out of the Flow. In the prologue, a space captain is dealing with a mutiny while her ship is still in the Flow, this universe’s version of hyperspace.
Spoiler Notice: The Collapsing Empire Beware the Post-Prologue Reboot It’s a space opera epic about environmental collapse and economic organization, but how good is the plot? Let’s find out. Our book for today is the Hugo-nominated The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi.
We’ll look almost entirely at big-picture plot issues, not wordcraft or dialogue problems. Instead of direct quotes from the text, we’ll summarize what happens in each chapter and then analyze how it affects the plot. This time we’re trying something different: analyzing a novel’s entire plot. Specifically, they’re limited to only the first chapter or two, because quoting a whole novel would be ridiculous. But the Bad Writing posts have their limits. Authors learn a lot from seeing a popular book’s early chapters broken down and analyzed, and spec fic fans enjoy our snarky comments. The Lessons From Bad Writing series has long been one of our most popular segments here at Mythcreants, and for good reason.
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